"prescribed penalty" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a penalty defined by law or regulation, or one assigned by an authority or institution. For example, "The judge gave the defendant the prescribed penalty of five years in prison for the crime."
The most recent requirements introduced in 2010 for Channel 4 to make a "statement of media policy" offer no established measure of success, nor any prescribed penalty for failure.
All seven, Mr Spicer insists, will suffer the prescribed penalty: losing half their delegates at the convention, which is to be held, embarrassingly enough, in Florida.
From a Jewish perspective, while the Hebrew Bible is filled with transgressions for which death is the prescribed penalty, there is only one instance in the Five Books of Moses in which someone is executed by the court.
There are no prescribed penalties for violating the rule.
Through their advocacy, the lawyers were able to influence the drafting of new legislation that prescribed penalties for rape.
Under this program, fatwas on the parameters of the blasphemy law and its prescribed penalties will be procured from local and international religious clergy members.
In 1539 Parliament passed the Six Articles reaffirming Catholic practices such as transubstantiation, clerical celibacy and the importance of confession to a priest and prescribed penalties if anyone denied them.
The demands mostly repeated previous rules and pronouncements, and the document did not prescribe penalties for violating them.
The first of these later codes, issued at Grately, prescribed harsh penalties, including the death penalty for anyone over twelve years old caught in the act of stealing goods worth more than eight pence.
In 1637 the Star Chamber issued its most drastic decree, which confirmed previous enactments, laid down detailed licensing procedures, reduced the total number of printers to 23, and prescribed severe penalties for offenses.
The bill further prescribed criminal penalties for any person who monopolizes trade.
